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...years after his release as a tough moderate. World War IFs end had brought 200,000 Nationalist Chinese troops into Indo-China as an occupation force. Ho, "resisting the temptation to play the romantic revolutionary," in Lacouture's words, cagily started negotiating with the French to lever the Chinese...
...Brennan slate's one-month, low-keyed campaign involved phone calling, neighborhood stumping, and electioneering at the poll booths. A printed disc with the names of the slate's members and the number of the appropriate polling-machine lever was its only campaign literature. The majority of voters at the polls seemed generally pleased to see college students and housewives at the polls. Their pleasant appearance put the crusty-looking opponents on the defensive. "Members of the incumbent slate there seemed like caricatures," a young housewife who had come to vote for McCarthy commented. "They all looked alike with those...
...Protestant churches to give religious instruction in schools, enjoy state protection of religious ceremonies and receive financial support through government-collected taxes. But the new constitution makes no mention whatsoever of the rights of churches. Many East German Protestants fear that Ulbricht will use this ambiguity as a lever to force them to break away entirely from their West German brethren, thus severing the last major formal link between the two Germanys...
...functions, and according to helicopter pilots is "like rubbing your head, patting your stomach and tapping time to Dixie with both feet, all at once," operating the J-2 is a snap. After starting the engine and the J-2's conventional push prop, the pilot depresses a lever at the side of his seat, temporarily engaging the engine to the overhead rotor. When the overhead ro tor reaches 520 r.p.m., the pilot pushes a button to disengage the rotor and change its blade pitch from flat to 5°. While the kinetic energy in the whirling rotor blades...
With proper lever, baby's fingers can move mountain...